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Joseph B. Walther is the Mark and Susan Bertelsen Presidential Chair in Technology and Society, and a Distinguished Professor of Communication at UCSB. A behavioral scientist and theorist, his work concentrates on how people present themselves to one another via the Internet and how they use the Internet to shape how they want to be known to each other; how they get to know others and decide who to like or trust, and how they develop relationships online that affect their work or social roles. Applications of his work in personal relationships, online groups, education settings, and inter-ethnic conflict have had a significant influence across a number of fields. Prior to UCSB, he was the Wee Kim Wee Professor in Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and has also taught at Michigan State, Cornell, Northwestern, the University of Amsterdam, and Manchester University.

Rasha A. Abdulla was a former CITS Visiting Research Scholar. Dr. Abdulla is Associate Professor and Past Chair of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo. Her research interests include the uses and effects of mass media, new media, particularly the Internet, development communication and education through entertainment, freedom of expression, as well as music and music videos as communication media. She is the author of "The Internet in Egypt and the Arab World,""The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond," "Policing the Internet in the Arab World," and numerous other research articles, reports, and book chapters.

Linda Adler-Kassner is Professor of Writing Studies and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education in the College of Letters and Science. Always working at the intersection of research and practice, her interests include how technological affordances shape ideas about good learning and good learners; the datafication of education, learning, and learning processes; and how technological affordances can support learning at scale, i.e., in large lecture-based courses. Adler-Kassner is author or co-editor of nine books and dozens of articles and book chapters; she also was awarded UCSB’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015.

Divyakant Agrawal is a Professor of Computer Science whose research expertise is in the areas of database systems, distributed computing, data warehousing, and large-scale information systems. Dr. Agrawal's involvement with CITS directly reflects his research philosophy, which is to work on data management problems that have both practical as well as theoretical significance. To this end, he has published approximately 300 research manuscripts in prestigious forums (journals, conferences, symposia, and workshops) on a wide range of topics related to data management and distributed systems.

Kevin Almeroth is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science where his main research interests include computer networks and protocols, wireless networking, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and mobile applications. Dr. Almeroth served as the Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society from 1999-2012.

Richard P. Appelbaum is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Global and International Studies. Dr. Appelbaum’s affiliation with CITS stems from his interest in the working class and new technologies. He is currently engaged in a research project on high technology development (focusing on nanotechnology) in China.

Stephen Barley has written over seventy articles on the impact of new technologies on work, the organization of technical work, and organizational culture. He edited a volume on technical work entitled Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States published in 1997 by the Cornell University Press. In collaboration with Gideon Kunda of Tel Aviv University, Barley authored Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in the Knowledge Economy, an ethnography of contingent work among engineers and software developers published by the Princeton University Press in 2004.

Professor Barley teaches courses on the organizational implications of technological change, organizational theory, social network analysis and ethnographic field methods. He has served as a consultant to organizations in a variety of industries including publishing, banking, computers, electronics and aerospace. He is currently researching corporate power in the United States, the rhetorical history of telecommuting, and how sophisticated mathematical modeling tools are altering the work of engineers who design automobiles.

Melissa Bator (PhD, University of California Santa Barbara) is the academic coordinator at CITS whose current research focuses on the knowledge sharing interactions among organizations within the international development community. She is particularly interested in the non-coercive movement of organizational knowledge from the private realm of the organization to the public realm, such as through organizational participation in online forums for giving and receiving advice, information etc.

Chuck Bazerman is a Professor of Education. His affiliation with CITS stems from his research concerning the history of scientific writing, other forms of writing used in advancing technological projects, and the relation of writing to the development of disciplines of knowledge. He served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication He is founder and current Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research. His study The languages of Edison's Light was awarded Best Book of 1999 in History of Science and Technology.

Elizabeth M. Belding is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elizabeth’s research focuses on mobile and wireless networking, including network performance analysis, and information and communication technologies for development (ICTD). In the past 7 years, she has particularly focused on improving Internet accessibility in developing communities worldwide. She is the founder and director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory. Elizabeth is the author of over 100 technical papers and has served on over 60 conference technical program committees. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Fellow. She received the UCSB Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2012 and the NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award in 2015 for her mentorship of graduate students. She was the Associate Director of CITS from 2012-2015.

Mark Bertelsen is a senior partner in the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He joined the firm in 1972 and from 1990-1996, he served as Managing Partner of the firm. He has represented technology and high growth enterprises worldwide for over 40 years, specializing in corporate finance, securities, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. The firm is the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, as well as the public and private capital markets that support them. He has served as a director of leading multi-national software companies including Autodesk, Informatica and Taleo. He is a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation, and served as Chair from 2001-2003, and is a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation. He is also a member of the Dean’s Cabinet of the College of Engineering and Director’s Council of the Institute for Energy Efficiency at UC Santa Barbara. He and his wife Susan have established the Eugene Aas Chair in Computer Science and the Bertelsen Presidential Chair in Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara, and as benefactors of UC Berkeley are recognized as Builders of Berkeley.

Mr. Bertelsen graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science for UC Santa Barbara in 1966, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1969.

Bruce Bimber is a Professor in the departments of Political Science and (by affiliation) Communication. Dr. Bimber’s research examines the relationship between digital media and patterns in human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization and collective action. He is a founder and Director Emeritus (from 1999-2006) of the Center for Information Technology and Society.

James Blascovich is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology. His two major research interests are social motivation and social influence within technologically mediated environments. He uses immersive virtual environment technology to empirically investigate social influence processes within virtual environments including conformity, non-verbal communication, collaborative decision-making, and leadership.

Nadine Bol is a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam. She is part of the university’s Research Priority Area ‘Personalized Communication,’ an interdisciplinary collaboration between the departments of Communication Science and Information Law. Her research focuses on the social and ethical implications of digital technologies, particularly in the field of health communication. More specifically, she researches questions related to why, how, and under which conditions people use digital technologies for health-related purposes, as well as the impact of technology on cognitive, social, and behavioral outcomes. Her work has been published in prominent, peer-reviewed journals, such as Human Communication Research, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Health Communication, and The Information Society. Nadine is currently co-editing a special issue on “Tailored Health Communications: Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Era” for the journal Digital Health.

John Bowers holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In addition, her directs the Institute for Energy Efficiency and the Center for Energy Efficient Materials. His research interests are primarily concerned with silicon photonics, optoelectronic devices, optical switching and transparent optical networks.

John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC) and the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)—a position he held for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, and nano/mems technologies. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include the management of radical innovation, digital youth culture, digital media, and new forms of communication and learning.

Simone Browne is a former CITS Visiting Research Scholar. Dr. Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and researches surveillance studies, popular culture, digital media and black diaspora studies. She completed her Master’s degree and her PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her work has been published in International Feminist Journal of Politics, Critical Sociology, Cultural Studies and Citizenship Studies. Her first book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Duke University Press, 2015) examines surveillance with a focus on transatlantic slavery, biometrics, airports, borders and creative texts.

Dolores Inés Casillas is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and a Faculty Affiliate of Film & Media Studies and Applied Linguistics in addition to CITS at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Her research focuses on immigrant engagement with U.S. Spanish-language media. She is the author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy (NYU Press, 2014), which received two book prizes and co-editor with Maria Elena Cepeda (Williams College) of the Companion to Latina/o Media Studies (Routledge Press, 2016) and co-editor with Mary Bucholtz and Jin Sook Lee (UC Santa Barbara) of Feeling It: Language, Race and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning (Routledge Press, 2018). Sounds of Belonging has been cited in different media venues, such as, the Associated Press, Pacifica Radio, ABCNEWS.COM, BuzzFeed and National Public Radio (NPR).

Her current book project examines how Spanish-dominant communities rely and revive specific media industries in the United States from DVD rentals via Red Box and smartphone applications such as What’s App, to language learning media, both online and audio-lingual, like Open English and Inglés Sin Barreras.

Alenda Y. Chang is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (Ph.D. Rhetoric, UC Berkeley). With a multidisciplinary background in biology, literature, and film, she specializes in merging environmental criticism with the analysis of contemporary media. Her writing has been featured in a number of journals, including Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Qui Parle, and electronic book review. While at Berkeley, Chang served on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media and worked as the executive producer for AirQuest, a civic-action game designed to motivate young people to learn more about air-quality issues in their local communities as well as the triggers and risk factors for asthma. She also maintains an informal resource blog for game studies and environmental humanities scholars.

Dorothy Chun is a Professor in the Department of Education. Professor Chun has conducted studies on cognitive and social process in learning with multimedia and has authored courseware for language and culture acquisition. Since 2000, she has been the Editor in Chief of the online journal Language Learning and Technology and her most recent publication “Cultura-inspired intercultural exchanges: Focus on Asian and Pacific languages” was published in 2014. Her work on how technology can be used to promote learning in college classrooms in a variety of subjects has been supported by a Mellon grant.

Jon Cruz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Department of Asian American Studies. Dr. Cruz's teaching areas and research interests include culture; the sociology of knowledge; American racial history; and media.

Homero Gil de Zúñiga was a Visiting Research Scholar in 2010. He holds a PhD in Politics from the Universidad Europea de Madrid and a PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds the Medienwandel Professorship at University of Vienna, where he directs the Media Innovation Lab (MiLab). He is also a Research Fellow at the Universidad Diego Portales, and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He has participated the summer doctoral program at the Oxford Internet Institute, and as Nieman Journalism Lab Research Fellow at Harvard University. His research addresses the influence of new technologies and digital media over people's daily lives, as well as the effect of such use on the overall democratic process. He is the author of numerous books and journal articles, and has obtained grants totaling over $4 million.

Dennis Del Favero is Chair Professor of Digital Innovation, and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. A digital media research artist and academic, his work focuses on the integration of artificial intelligence systems in art so as to expand art’s imaginative and decision-making capabilities in order for it to more effectively address pressing contemporary concerns through scenario modelling. He is the director of two leading research centres, both engaged in immersive visualization: the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, and the Extended Perception Interaction Centre.

Jeremy Douglass is an Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs Transcriptions, a center for research in literature, culture, media, and the digital humanities. Douglass currently conducts research on interactive narrative, electronic poetry, and games, with a particular focus on applying the methods of software studies, critical code studies, and information visualization to the analysis of digital texts. Douglass been supported by agencies including the NEH Office of Digital Humanities, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, ACLS, Calit2, HASTAC, and NERSC.

Jennifer Earl was an Associate Professor of Sociology at UCSB. She currently is a Professor at the University of Arizona. Dr. Earl studies information technology, social movements, and the legal system. She is a past director of the Center for Information Technology and Society (2006-2009).

Amr El Abbadi is a Professor of Computer Science and the former chair of the department. Dr. Abbadi’s research interests are in the fields of fault-tolerant distributed systems and databases which addresses how to manage the ever increasing amount of data being generated and analyzed. To this end, he has been involved in designing systems and database support for collaborative environments with special interest in social media applications and issues related to privacy preservation. Professor Abbadi is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS and served as a board member of the VLDB Endowment from 2002 - 2008 as well as the Executive Committee of the Technical Committee of Data Engineering (TCDE).

Anna Everett is a Professor of Film & Media Studies. Dr. Everett works in the fields of film and TV history/theory, African-American film and culture, and Digital Media Technologies. She is the author of Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 (Duke Univ. Press, 2001) and is currently at work on a book titled Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace.

Andrew Flanagin is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Director Emeritus (2009-2012) of the Center for Information Technology and Society. Dr. Flanagin’s research focuses on how communication and information technologies structure and extend human interaction, with particular emphases on processes of organizing and information sharing and evaluation.

Mikkel Flyverbom is Professor of Communication and Digital Transformations at the Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is academic director of the research platform Transformations: Technology, Data and Knowledge in the Digital Age and founding director the BSc in Business Administration and Digital Management program, both at Copenhagen Business School. With a background in communication, his work explores the workings and consequences of digital transformations, with a particular interest in questions about transparency and visibilities, datafication and knowledge production, and anticipation and governance. His publications on internet governance, tech companies, data and transparency have appeared in Organization Studies, Management Communication Quarterly, Business & Society, Organization, The Information Society, Telecommunications Policy, as well as a number of books. He is currently finishing a new book on digital transformations and visibility management for Cambridge University Press. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Communication Theory and Big Data & Society, and advisory boards of the think tank DataEthics and the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University, and is a widely used media expert on digital transformations and the tech industry.

James Frew is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and a principal investigator at the University’s Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS). His research interests lie in the emerging field of environmental informatics, a synthesis of computer, information, and Earth sciences. His current research focuses on geospatial information provenance, discovery, and curation, using remote sensing data products generated by his Environmental Information Laboratory as operational test beds.

Jennifer Gibbs (Ph.D, Annenberg School of Communication at USC, 2002) is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on collaboration in global teams and other distributed work arrangements, as well as the affordances of new technologies such as social media for strategic communication practices. Her current projects include studies of: 1) social media and organizational knowledge sharing, 2) global virtual team collaboration, 3) social support and normative control in online communities, and 4) distraction and the role of new technologies.

Amy Gonzales is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work examines the effects of social interaction via communication technologies on individual identity, social support, and well-being. She is also interested in the consequences of disrupted access to communication technology. She is especially interested in these phenomena for people from disadvantaged communities (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, low-income populations, LGBTQ individuals, etc.). Her work aims to advance theoretical understanding and real-world solutions that may help mitigate the long-term consequences of new digital infrastructures that may otherwise exacerbate social inequalities. She has published in leading journals in the field of communication, including Journal of Communication, Communication Research, New Media & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Media Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior, Information, Communication & Society, and Cyberpsychology, Behavior & Social Networking.

Judith Green is a Professor Emerita of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Green's teaching and research focus on teaching-learning relationships, disciplinary knowledge as socially constructed, and ethnographic research and discourse studies of the patterns of everyday life in both physical and virtual classrooms.

Barbara Herr Harthorn is a Professor of Anthropology, with affiliate positions in the departments of Feminist Studies and Sociology. Her research broadly examines culture and health, health inequality, and technological risk and perception. Her current work in the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UCSB, where she is a principal investigator, examines nanotechnological risk perception among both experts and diverse US and comparative UK publics.

Jennifer Holt is an Associate Professor in the Film and Media Studies Department who specializes in the study of media industries and regulatory policy. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment (2010), and the co-editor of Media Industries (2009); Connected Viewing (2014); and Distribution Revolution (2014). Her current research explores media policy as it relates to global cloud infrastructure and digital distribution, and she is presently working on a monograph entitled Cloud Policy. She is also a founding editorial collective member of the Media Industries journal, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Charles (Chuck) House is Chancellor of Cogswell College, Executive Director for Media X, and Senior Research Scholar in the Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University. House is deeply involved with questions of technology's effect on society, particularly engineering and entrepreneurship, and collaboration using multi-mediated Web networking.

Krzysztof Janowicz is an Associate Professor for Geographic Information Science in the Geography Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Janowicz’s research focuses on the geo-spatial semantics and data infrastructures in general. He is the program chair of the Cognitive Science Program and one of two Editors-in-Chief of the Semantic Web journal. He also runs the STKO Lab which investigates the role of space and time for knowledge organization.

Lisa Jevbratt is an Associate Professor in the Art Department and the Media Art Technology program. Her work, ranging from Internet visualization software to biofeedback and interspecies collaboration, is concerned with collectives and systems, the languages and conditions that generate them, and the exchanges within them.

Younbo Jung is Associate Professor of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He earned his Ph.D. at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

In teaching, he received four teaching-related awards at NTU: Nanyang Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010, Nanyang Education Award (College) in 2013, Nanyang Education Award (University) – Bronze in 2014, and Koh Boon Hwee Scholar’s Award (mentorship award) in 2014. He is the inaugural Fellow of Teaching Excellence Academy since 2014.

In research, his interests include socio-psychological effects of interactive media such as video games, virtual reality systems, human-machine interaction, and their applications in education and medical aids. He supports interdisciplinary research and has successfully collaborated on many research projects with scholars in computer science, electrical engineering, education, physical therapy, and social work.

Ulrike Klinger was a CITS Visiting Research Scholar from March through May of 2017. Dr. Klinger is a professor for digital communication at Free University Berlin.. Dr. Klinger's research interests include the societal and cultural implications of communication and IT, strategic communication and politicians’ use of digital media, digital media and democratic processes, as well as comparative analysis of media structures and media regulation. Her current project is "Transforming the digital public sphere: IT engineers as communicators." To learn more about Ulrike's current and past research see her Curriculum Vitae.

"Thank you CITS for an excellent experience: my time as visiting scholar could not have been more productive and fun. The facilities for research are outstanding and easy to access. But the best were the people at CITS! If only I could stay longer, my book manuscript would definitely benefit."

Karolina Koc-Michalska is a CITS Visiting Research Scholar from June 2017 through September 2017. She is an Associate Professor at Audencia Business School and Associate Researcher at CEVIPOF Sciences-Po Paris, France. Her research interest focuses on political parties’ strategic online communication during electoral time, especially the usage of social media, as well as the new media effects on societies. She extends this work through comparative research within the European countries and US. During her stay at CITS, she will explore the motivations leading to political participation and the role of fake news in societies.

George Legrady is a Professor of Interactive Media, with a joint appointment in the Media Arts & Technology program and the Department of Art. He is director of the Experimental Visualization Lab and Chair of the Media Arts & Technology doctoral program. His current research addresses data collection, data processing methodologies and data visualization presented simultaneously in interactive installations and the Internet. Professor Legrady was one of 5 artists commissioned to create an artwork about deep space in collaboration with the Caltech managed NASA Spitzer Space Center in 2008. He was awarded a National Science Foundation Intelligence & Information System grant in 2011, and a National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Grant in 2012 and the Creative Capital Foundation grant three times amongst many others for his creative work.

Paul Leonardi is the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management and the Investment Group of Santa Barbara Founding Director of the Master of Technology Management Program at UCSB. He holds appointments in the Technology Management Program and the Department of Communication. Leonardi’s research, teaching, and consulting focus on helping companies create and share knowledge more effectively. He is interested in how implementing new technologies and harnessing the power of informal social networks can help companies take advantage of their knowledge assets to create innovative products and services. Leonardi has won awards for his research from the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Association for Information Systems, the International Communication Association, the National Communication Association, and the National Science Foundation.

Alan Liu is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of English. His central interests include digital humanities, information culture, new media, literary theory, cultural studies, and British Romantic literature and art. Liu is co-founder and leader of the international 4Humanities.org advocacy initiative. Currently he is directing the 4Humanities topic-modeling project titled WhatEvery1Says. Other digital initiatives he has led include Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading, a University of California multi-campus, collaborative research group, and RoSE (Research-oriented Social Environment), a software project funded by a NEH Digital Humanities Start-up grant that is the culmination of Transliteracies. In fall 2015, he was a Fulbright Specialist in digital humanities in New Zealand. Liu is currently working on books about critical infrastructure studies in the digital humanities and the relationship between media and history.

Karen Lunsford is an Associate Professor of Writing, where she specialize in Writing in the Disciplines. Dr. Lunsford’s individual and collaborative work employs interdisciplinary approaches to understand the writing practices that people engage in within evolving knowledge ecologies, how argument and argumentation are defined in these ecologies, and what roles technologies play in these practices and definitions.

Carleen Maitland is a former CITS Visiting Research Scholar. Dr. Maitland is Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and co-director of the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University. Her research and teaching examine the institutional context of humanitarian organizations and its implications for access to and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Outcomes from her work, including more than 50 journal articles, book chapters and refereed conference proceedings, have appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Information Technology, The Information Society, Telecommunications Policy and Information Systems Frontiers.

Richard E. Mayer has been a Professor of Psychology at UCSB since 1975. Dr. Mayer’s current research involves the intersection of cognition, instruction, and technology with a special focus on multimedia learning and computer-supported learning. He served as President of the Educational Psychology division of the American Psychological Association and Vice President of the American Educational Research Association for the Learning and Instruction division. He is the winner of the Thorndike Award for career achievement in educational psychology, the Scribner Award for outstanding research in learning and instruction, and the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Contribution of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award.

Patrick McCray is a Professor in the Department of History. Dr. McCray’s research interests focuses on different technological and scientific communities and their interactions with the public and policy makers – especially newly emerging technologies. McCray was elected to be a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. In 2014 McCray's 2013 book The Visioneers won the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize from the History of Science Society. McCray is currently writing a new book on the interactions between artists, engineers, and scientists from the 1960s to the present.

Daniel is a graduate student researcher with CITS and a M.S. student in Computer Science at UCSB. He has an interdisciplinary background at the intersection of Economics and Computer Science and is currently pursuing research projects in social computing and social network analysis. At CITS, Dan manages the center's media presence and works to publicize the research efforts of the center and its faculty research affiliates.

Miriam Metzger is a Professor in the Department of Communication. Dr. Metzger’s recent work has examined how information technology alters our understandings of trust in the new media environment, with a specific focus on the credibility of information online and on how trust intersects with privacy and disclosure in online social networks. She was ranked in the top 50 most productive and influential scholars in the field of Communication by Thomas Feeley in 2011 and has published her research widely in communication and related fields.

Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod is a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, pursuing research in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on how the growth of national partisan polarization interacts with state politics, intergovernmental relations, and the decentralization of policy implementation within American federalism. He examines the ways in which the goals and policy preferences of state party organizations vary from their national allies due to the unique demands placed on them by local constituents. He argues that this variation results in distinct and at times unexpected patterns of resistance and cooperation to national partisan pressure and creates opportunities for bi-partisan policy implementation in spite of polarization.

His post-doctoral work focuses on variation in partisan issue ownership within the states by examining the content of state legislative campaign websites. His dissertation, entitled "American Federalism and Partisan Resistance in an Age of Polarization" explored the potential for bi-partisan compromise between state and federal agents, arguing that variation in state partisan policy preferences and stronger inter-party competition for control of state institutions can encourage bi-partisan compromise between state and federal agents.

He completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in August 2018 under the guidance of Dr. Suzanne Mettler and Dr David Bateman. He received a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2008. Prior to graduate school, he worked for a non-profit dedicated to raising awareness about down-ballot issues and state elections through the creation of digital resources for citizens including information on state open records and meetings laws, ballot measures, state legislative, executive and judicial elections and even state policy.

Dr. Meyer-Gutbrod will be collaborating with CITS during his time researching at UCSB.

John Mohr, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology. Mohr’s research interests include organizational theory; sociology of culture; historical analysis; the welfare state; and qualitative/quantitative methods. His affiliation with CITS stems from his work as a research team member at the NSF Sponsored Center for Nanotechnology and Society at UCSB, focusing in particular on the organization of episetemic cultures and innovation networks in science and engineering fields.

Mike Murphy is Managing Partner at Lift ACM Advisors, a boutique firm specializing in advising early stage companies. Previously, Mike was Vice President of Global Sales at Facebook where he built the monetization strategy while overseeing marketing relationships, advertising sales and account management. Mike launched their business in over 20 countries. Mike joined Facebook from Yahoo!, where he was Regional Vice President of Media Sales. He began his media career at Ziff-Davis Publishing and CMP Media where he held may positions including Publisher, Associate Publisher and Managing Director. Mike holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas. Mike is interested in the evolution of Social Media, the impact on relationships and most recently its unintended consequences.

Christopher Newfield is a Professor of American culture. Newfield’s research focuses on the processes of creativity and innovation, with a double focus on cultural and technological factors. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in a range of technology-dependent industries and has wide experience with the university side of copyright, patenting, and technology transfer.

Lisa Parks was a Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB. She is currently a professor at MIT. Dr. Parks has conducted research on the uses of satellite, computer, and television technologies in different national contexts. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and engages with fields such as geography, art, international relations, and communication studies. She is a past director of the Center for Information Technology & Society (2012-2015).

Constance Penley is a Professor of Film and Media Studies. Penley's research interests include film history and theory, feminist theory, cultural studies, contemporary art, and science and technology studies. Her most recent work includes NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America and The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Science and Gender (ed. with Treichler and Cartwright).

Linda Petzold is a professor in the Department of Computer science and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She directs the Computational Science and Engineering graduate emphasis at UCSB. Her research focuses on modeling, simulation and analysis of multiscale systems in systems biology and materials.

Amy Propen is an Assistant Professor of Digital and Multimodal Writing in the Writing Program. Her research interests include visual and material rhetorics, environmental and sustainability rhetorics, digital and posthuman rhetorics, animal studies, human geography, critical cartographies, and critical GIS. She is particularly interested in the connections between multimodal technologies, the posthuman, and environmental and marine species conservation. She is author of Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics: The Map, the Mill, and the GPS, and co-editor of Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman.

Rita Raley is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, where she serves as co-director of the Literature and Culture of Information specialization. She is the author of Tactical Media and has more recently published articles on digital poetics, dataveillance, and interventionist art practices. She is currently co-editing a journal issue on "securing with algorithms" and writing about algorithmic translations.

Laila Shereen Sakr is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. With a body of work specializing in computational art, live cinema, data visualization, and media activism, her book manuscript uses media analytics, specifically in Arabic, and live cinema to map how participation among networked publics have influenced the formation of a virtual body politic. This research led her to design the R-Shief media system for real-time archiving and analyzing social media content for over five years and with more than twenty five billion posts, and the cyborg representation of VJ Um Amel.

Dave Seibold is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Technology Management Program, College of Engineering, and Director of the campus-wide Graduate Program in Management Practice (GPMP) delivered through TMP. He also is a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Communication. His research interests include team processes, innovation and organizational change, collaborative technologies, and organizational communication. An elected Fellow of the International Communication Association, a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, he has received numerous career awards for scholarship, teaching and mentoring, and professional service including the Distinguished Career Award from the Group Communication Division of the National Communication Association and the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award from the International Communication Association. He also has consulted with more than 75 business, government, and service organizations at over 120 sites.

Greg Siegel is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity (Sign, Storage, Transmission series) (Duke University Press, 2014). His essays have appeared in Cabinet, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Discourse, Grey Room, Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions (Wesleyan University Press, 2005), and Television: The Critical View, 7th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2007). He is currently Co-Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) at UCSB.

Eric R.A.N. Smith is a Professor of Political Science. Dr. Smith's research focuses on public opinion, elections, and environmental politics. In the area of environmental politics, he has been examining public opinion toward offshore oil development and nuclear power.

Melissa Smith, M.D., is a family medicine physician who has worked in poor communities in the US and Central America for three decades, providing medical care and developing training programs for community health workers and midwives. Dr. Smith is the Director of Health Equity Initiatives at UC Santa Barbara, and Deputy Director of Education and Training for the UC Global Health Institute's Women's Health Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise. Dr. Smith teaches a seminar on Community-based Participatory Research on health disparities at UCSB and leads the Global Health in Mexico program with UC Education Abroad.

Dr. Smith's affiliation with CITS relates to her long-term collaboration with Hesperian Health Guides, producing women's health mobile apps and public health manuals that are translated in many languages and available on Hesperian's open-source digital platform which is accessed by millions of people in the Global South. Dr Smith is lead author of Hesperian's recently published book, Health Actions for Women: Practical Strategies to Mobilize for Change. In 2012, Dr. Smith received the University of Washington School of Medicine Alumni Humanitarian award.

Cynthia Stohl is Professor in the Department of Communication, a Fellow and Past President of the International Communication Association, and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. A leading expert in globalization, networks, and organizational processes, her most recent work addresses global organizing, collective action, and corporate social responsibility in the digital media environment. She is currently co- PI on a research grant “Activism, technology and organizing: Transformations in collective action in Aotearoa” funded by the Marsden Fund, part of The Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2012 she received the Outstanding Book award for Collective Action in Organizations: Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change (co-authored with UCSB Professors Flanagin and Bimber).

Michael Stohl is a Professor in the Department of Communication and an affiliate faculty member in the departments of Global and International Studies and Political Science. Currently he is Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at UCSB. Stohl's research focuses on organizational and political communication with special reference to terrorism, human rights and global relations. Dr. Stohl has been the recipient of three Fulbright Fellowships, to teach at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2013, Administrators in Japan and Korea in 1989 and at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1983. He was awarded Visiting Research Grants for collaborative research on terrorism at the State University of Leiden, The Netherlands, by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappeliijk Onderzoek, in May 1989 and May 1985 and a Royal Marsden Research Grant for New Zealand in 2009.

Clara ter Hoeven was a CITS Visiting Scholar from November 2016 through June 2017. Dr. Clara ter Hoeven is an associate professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR, University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on communication technology use, flexible work designs, work-life policies, and employee well-being.

Dave and his team globalized, took public and sold technology company GaSonics. They were leaders in several competitive markets delivering a dozen generations of technology for the likes of Intel and others. He saw the cost of communicating with video and digital media disruptive and founded Outhink a digital media incubator that has several granted patents on real time communications on the Internet. MediaMobz is his latest venture, they enable brands, education and agencies scale the use of video to communicate. Dave has been in the video space for 20 years.

Matthew Turk is a Professor and Department Chair in the Computer Science Department and former chair of the Media Arts and Technology Program. Dr. Turk's research is primarily in computer vision and human-computer interaction. He co-directs the Four Eyes Lab, which focuses on the "four I's" of imaging, interaction, and innovative interfaces. He is on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems and the Journal of Image and Vision Computing, and he is on advisory boards of several international conferences. He has received several paper awards and is an IEEE Fellow, an IAPR Fellow, and the recipient of the 2011-2012 Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies.

Cristina Venegas is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. Dr. Venegas focuses her research on international media with an emphasis on Latin America, Spanish-language film and television in the U.S., and digital technologies. She has written about film and political culture, revolutionary imagination in the Americas, telenovelas, contemporary Latin American cinema, co-productions and a monograph dealing with cyberculture in Cuba.

William Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His involvement with CITS stems from his research interests in computational social science and the study of the dissemination of misinformation. He has broad interests in machine learning approaches to data science, including statistical relational learning, information extraction, computational social science, speech, and vision. William has over 40 papers in leading conferences and journals, with numerous best paper awards. An alumnus of Columbia University, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has also garnered an IBM Faculty Award, and the Richard King Mellon Presidential Fellowship in 2011. He has also worked for Yahoo! Labs, Microsoft Research Redmond, and University of Southern California. In addition to research, William enjoys writing scientific articles that impact the broader online community: His microblog has more than 2,000,000 views each month, and his opinions have appeared in major outlets such as Wired, VICE, Fast Company, and Mental Floss.

William Warner is a Professor in the English Department. Dr. Warner’s central interests include Eighteenth century British and American literature and cultural studies, the novel, literary and cultural theory, media studies, and law and literature (free speech and censorship). He is currently at work on the Transcriptions Project, and a project on enlightenment and contemporary IT culture.

René Weber is Professor in the Department of Communication and lead researcher at UCSB’s Media Neuroscience Lab. His recent research focuses on cognitive responses to mass communication and new technology media messages, including video games. He develops and applies both traditional social scientific and neuroscientific methodology (fMRI) to test media related theories. His research has been published in major communication and neuroscience journals and in three authored books. He is an Executive Council member of UCSB’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, one of five neuromarketing experts accredited by the Advertising Research Foundation, and past Chair of the International Communication Association's Mass Communication Division.

Ms. Williams is a senior director of technology for Marriott International. She is an experienced marketing and technology executive. Prior to joining Marriott, Marie held digital and marketing positions at Hilton Worldwide, Capital One Financial and Ford Motor Company in the United States and Europe. Ms. Williams graduated USCB in 1989 with a B.A. in Economics and went on to earn an MBA in Marketing and Finance and an MA in International Studies from the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation in June 2013. She served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors and as an EAP Ambassador. She is currently Co-Chair of the Washington DC Regional Leadership Committee for UC Santa Barbara.

Stephan Winter is a former CITS Visiting Research Scholar. He is an Assistant Professor of Persuasive Communication at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Dr. Winter's research focuses primarily on credibility and information selection as well as on processes of attitude formation and expression in new media environments. Furthermore, he is interested in personalization and message targeting in social media. To learn more about Stephan's current and past research see his Homepage at the University of Amsterdam.

John Woolley is a Professor of Political Science. Dr. Woolley's current research focuses on change over time in the presidency and presidential use of unilateral action. Together with Gerhard Peters, Woolley has developed an extensive web-based resource on the American presidency (www.presidency.ucsb.edu), which is widely used by scholars and others interested in the presidency and American political history.

Bob York serves as Professor and Vice Chair of the Technology Management Program and is also Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara . Prof. York received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1991, with a research focus on high-speed and wireless electronic devices and antennas. He has over 240 technical publications and holds 17 US Patents. He received Young Investigator Awards from the Army Research Office (1993) and Office of Naval Research (1996) for his work in high-power amplifiers and antenna arrays, and received the Outstanding Young Engineer award in 2004 from the MTT Society of the Institue for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE). He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2009, and also has been voted Outstanding Faculty member several times by the graduating senior class at UCSB. Prof. York has been active in technology transfer and commercialization. He co-founded AgileRF Inc. in Goleta, CA, and served as CTO from 1999-2010, and has another UC invention in production at Wavestream Inc. in San Dimas which ranked among the Top-25 Inventions in the University of California in 2012. In his capacity as Chair of TMP, Prof. York oversees all the curricular and outreach activities in the program including undergraduate and graduate coursework in business and entrepreneurship, an annual New Venture Competition, a quarterly lecture series that brings in guest speakers from around the country. Prof. York led the campus effort to create a new Professional Masters degree program in Technology Management, due to launch in Fall 2015.